Foundation
Foundation working for social and environmental innovation
Based in e-Estonia, the Fab City Foundation supports the global initiative through the development of projects for social innovation, research, and courses on urban innovation. The Foundation facilitates the Network of cities, hosts the annual Summit in collaboration with a local host, and leads strategic action research on innovative city models like the Fab City Full Stack and PITO to DIDO model.
Team
Supervisory Board
Sherry Lassiter
Fab Foundation
Liz Corbin
Co-funder and CEO Materiom
Francesco Cingolani
Volumes, Fab City Grand Paris
Julie Hjort
Chair of the Board
Danish Design Centre
Daniel Ibáñez
Director of IAAC
Erkki Karo
TalTech
Executive Board
Tomas Diez
Executive Director
Kate Armstrong
Strategic Director
Lucas Lemos
Admin Director
Team
Vasilis Niaros
Research & Innovation Lead
Carolina Ferro
Ecosystem Lead
Josefina Nano
Programs Lead
Ilenia Pennacchio
Communication Lead
Lucas Marangoni
Operations Lead
Norella Coronell
Production Manager
Freda Yamorti Gbande
Knowledge Manager
Tomas Vivanco
MDDI Co-Director
Mitalee Parikh
Project Manager
Daan Sonnemans
Program Assistant
Ámbar Tenorio-Fornés
Project Expert
Nikiforos Tsiouris
EU Projects Administrator
Diego Ainse
Project Assistant
Open and accessible research
Facilitating open design, research, and innovation with cities and communities.
The Foundation follows strategic research lines to meet our long-term plan to make cities produce (almost) everything they consume. Through our projects, courses, networks, and events we seek best practices for smart cities, green innovation, digital transition, and community building. We focus on producing high-quality case studies and outputs for take-up in and beyond our network of cities and regions and undertake high-level research with collaborators which you can read about on our research blog.
The founders
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